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...with the cold virus but use different HIV genes and two injections spaced a few months apart. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, thinks the answer might be to abandon the cold virus and switch to another one, perhaps chicken pox. HIV won yet another round, but the game is long--and science is patient. How an aids vaccine could work [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] 1 A cold virus has been engineered to carry three synthetically produced HIV genes 2 Dendritic cells...
...government authorities and policy makers. Church believes the key to ensuring safe research practice will be the development of advanced computer surveillance software to be used in laboratories internationally. Without this oversight it could become too easy for anyone to order the synthetic DNA of, say, drug-resistant small pox. Software could flag the orders of any potentially dangerous synthetic materials and instantly notify an oversight authority, such as the FBI. So, future students in Life Sciences 1a could hypothetically order certain harmless synthetic chromosomes for laboratory experiments, yet be unable to order dangerous versions or have access...
...relatively little time. Due to advances in sanitation, medicine, and education, life expectancy worldwide has dramatically increased in the past two centuries from 30 years in 1800 to 67 years today, while infant mortality rates have plummeted from 21.7 percent to 0.6 percent in 2000. Diseases like small pox, tuberculosis, and syphilis that once ravaged the Western world have virtually disappeared here. And the development of scientific farming methods, factories, electricity, mass transportation, and even computers has increased the material well-being of whole populations while dramatically reducing the pool of disenfranchised laborers. The result is that reading and writing...
...still appears to attract the bulk of the anti-immigration vote, running fourth with 14% of the vote (five points behind Bayrou). He can't win, of course, but his persistent appeal shows that for part of the French electorate, the most utile vote remains one that declares a pox on the French political class as a whole...
Many consider the mandates, even with a clause to opt out via affidavit, too intrusive. Maryland withdrew its Gardasil proposal after a new chicken pox vaccine law made many kids miss school...